A list of Shawanese words. [1889]

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A list of Shawanese words. [1889]

Copy by Mr. S.M. Sener of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1899 of a Shawnee-English vocabulary list compiled by Judge Jaspar Yeates while serving as Commissioner at the Fort Pitt (Pa.) Indian treaty negotiations in October 1776.

[4] p. ; 23 cm.

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